The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper;: Cowley, Denham, MiltonAlexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson J. Johnson; J. Nichols and son; R. Baldwin; F. and C. Rivington; W. Otridge and Son; Leigh and Sotheby; R. Faulder and Son; G. Nicol and Son; T. Payne; G. Robinson; Wilkie and Robinson; C. Davies; T. Egerton; Scatcherd and Letterman; J. Walker; Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe; R. Lea; J. Nunn; Lackington, Allen, and Company; J. Stockdale; Cuthell and Martin; Clarke and Sons; J. White and Company; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Cadell and Davies; J. Barker; John Richardson; J.M. Richardson; J. Carpenter; B. Crosby; E. Jeffery; J. Murray; W. Miller; J. and A. Arch; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury; J. Booker; S. Bagster; J. Harding; J. Mackinlay; J. Hatchard; R.H. Evans; Matthews and Leigh; J. Mawman; J. Booth; J. Asperne; P. and W. Wynne; and W. Grace, Deighton and Son at Cambridge; and Wilson and Son at York, 1810 - English poetry |
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... sight ! ) he shone afar . The Sun himself started with sudden fright , To see his beams return so dismal bright , COWLEY . COWLEY . COWLEY , An universal consternation : His bloody eyes he hurls round LIFE OF COWLEY . 17.
... sight ! ) he shone afar . The Sun himself started with sudden fright , To see his beams return so dismal bright , COWLEY . COWLEY . COWLEY , An universal consternation : His bloody eyes he hurls round LIFE OF COWLEY . 17.
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... sight might have suggested . When Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumspicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campo quod forte jacebat Limes agro ...
... sight might have suggested . When Virgil describes the stone which Turnus lifted against Æneas , he fixes the attention on its bulk and weight : Saxum circumspicit ingens , Saxum antiquum , ingens , campo quod forte jacebat Limes agro ...
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... sight Wax'd pale with envy , and from thence grew white . She was in birth and parentage as high As in her fortune great or beauty rare ; And to her virtuous mind's nobility The gifts of Fate and Nature doubled were ; That in her ...
... sight Wax'd pale with envy , and from thence grew white . She was in birth and parentage as high As in her fortune great or beauty rare ; And to her virtuous mind's nobility The gifts of Fate and Nature doubled were ; That in her ...
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... sight . " Those who contemn thy sacred deity , Laugh at thy power , make them thine anger know : I faultless am ; what honour can it be , Only to wound your slave and spare your foe ? " Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan , In ...
... sight . " Those who contemn thy sacred deity , Laugh at thy power , make them thine anger know : I faultless am ; what honour can it be , Only to wound your slave and spare your foe ? " Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan , In ...
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... sight ; Who thus exclaims ( for a swoln heart would break , If it for vent of sorrow might not speak ) : " Oh ! I am lost , not in this desert wood , But in Love's pathless labyrinth ; there I My health , each joy and pleasure counted ...
... sight ; Who thus exclaims ( for a swoln heart would break , If it for vent of sorrow might not speak ) : " Oh ! I am lost , not in this desert wood , But in Love's pathless labyrinth ; there I My health , each joy and pleasure counted ...
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